Genetic parameters of foot and leg traits in future ai bulls II: Correlation to body conformation traits in daughters

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 122-128

  Boelling, Dorothee ^a   Madsen, Per ^a   Jensen, Just ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Genetic correlation; Linear conformation traits; Locomotory traits; Performance tested bulls

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035351494     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/090647001750193459     Document Type: Article

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